Re: 10gR2 install on Kubuntu Stuck at 4%

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 08:41:46 -0700
Message-ID: <1177947703.925162@bubbleator.drizzle.com>

cloneofsnake wrote:
> Forgive me for being a complete noob, but both you and dizwell's guide
> says to create the .bashrc file in /home/oracle
>

>> vi /home/oracle/.bashrc (or) .bash_profile ... set environ vars

>
> but that folder doesn't exist. In your guide you created /app/oracle,
> and in dizwell's, /oracle/10g.
>
> In the other guide, he created the folder /opt/oracle/product/10gR2,
> his bash_profile is created in /opt/oracle/.bash_profile, which makes
> more sense to me.
>
> I'm now trying to point my oracle user to use dizwell's folders - /
> oracle/10g... but now when I do su - oracle, and then echo
> $ORACLE_HOME, I get nothing! I think I'm going to delete that user
> and delete all those folders and start over again.

When you create the "oracle" user

$ /usr/sbin/groupadd oinstall
$ /usr/sbin/groupadd dba
$ /usr/sbin/useradd -m -g oinstall -G dba oracle

/home/oracle is created along with default .bash_profile and .bashrc files.

If you are not seeing them ...

ls -al
not
ls

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Daniel A. Morgan
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Received on Mon Apr 30 2007 - 10:41:46 CDT